MS's actual policy here is that they end extended support for the previous version at least 7 years after the next version is released. Vista was released in 2007 and if you add 7 years that is where the 2014 end of extended support date for XP comes from.
Sorry didn't read your entire comment, but I agree that the most important thing for consumers will likely to be the IE upgrades. It sucks these are limited to mainstream support versions of Windows.
My point is that it is not just and mostly is not new features. There are other kinds of non-security hotfixes to fix bugs in existing features, not to mention IE upgrades.
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MS's actual policy here is that they end extended support for the previous version at least 7 years after the next version is released. Vista was released in 2007 and if you add 7 years that is where the 2014 end of extended support date for XP comes from.
AFAIK this helped DR's lawsuit against MS. In contrast, as mentioned in my blog post, OS/2 never depended on DOS at all.
The MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco is my favorite MS fiasco: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-px00307-and-dr.html
Marissa Mayer came from Google and I think did some major clean up of Yahoo, including the culture for example.
In case of Yahoo, the management changed. Marissa Mayer was hired from Google.
As a note, in the end Intel came out with the 65nm Cedar Mill which takes less power and is drop in compatible with Prescott.
Yea, it is not difficult in most cases to hack IE6 web apps to work in IE7 (and IE7 compatibility mode in IE8+)
Something like this is why I consider current anti-discrimination laws probably fundamentally flawed, BTW.
You are confusing the Product Distribution End Date with the end of support date, which is sill 2019.
No, the latest Embedded 2009 version based on XP only receives support until 2019.
As it happens, Office 2008 for Mac ends support after this next Patch Tuesday. But there has been only one exploit that I know of that affect x86 Office 2008 for Mac, and none affecting any PowerPC version.
Most XP-era hardware with Intel/AMD processors support PAE. Only major exception is older Pentium Ms that lacks NX.
Especially as XP lacks ASLR, making exploits much easier to write.
Ah, the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco:
http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-px00307-and-dr.html
Yep, many RAID vendors already switched to the supercap/flash combo a few years ago.
Personally, I'd want to open the desktop to third party developers and just call it Win8 for ARM, just like what NT for Alpha was called.
michaelochurch has blogged about open allocation and problems with "why you?" cultures and concave vs convex that is probably related.
http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/gervais-macleod-16-healthy-culture-vs-why-you/
Notice in the comments I have talked about how hiring CEOs based on years of experience doing the same job is a bad idea.
Sorry didn't read your entire comment, but I agree that the most important thing for consumers will likely to be the IE upgrades. It sucks these are limited to mainstream support versions of Windows.
My point is that it is not just and mostly is not new features. There are other kinds of non-security hotfixes to fix bugs in existing features, not to mention IE upgrades.
Yea, the main thing is not new features. See http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/.
I think the firmware was called ARC or later AlphaBIOS.
BTW, Win7 ends mainstream support in Jan 2015 and extended in 2020.
Like the WGA notifications add-on, for example.
What is built into the OS is only activation. The other stuff was added much later via updates and built-in checking inside MS software installers.